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h o ʍ l e t t→ Au-delà de Musk : comment l’élite techno-césariste veut rebâtir l’Amérique <a href="https://legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/01/30/la-conjuration-des-batisseurs-musk-thiel-trump-et-lavenir-des-etats-unis/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/01/30/la-conjuration-des-batisseurs-musk-thiel-trump-et-lavenir-des-etats-unis/</a>« Bâtir. À tout prix. Un impératif est devenu le mantra des techno-césaristes qui entourent Trump. Alessandro Aresu raconte comment Musk, Thiel, Andreessen ou Palmer Luckey ont pris le futur de l’Amérique. »<a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/Thiel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Thiel</a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/Andreessen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Andreessen</a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/Luckey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Luckey</a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/Am" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Am</a>

Chuck DarwinCheap, smart, deadly. The tech industry pitches a new way to wage war. Anduril Industries hopes it can transform the U.S. military under the new Trump administration. It imagines the nation defended by fleets of deadly aerial and undersea drones that can tirelessly patrol the world with minimal need for human intervention, poised to strike if ordered to.  Anduril has deep ties to President Donald Trump’s tech funders and advisers. It is the most prominent among a raft of defense upstarts aiming to challenge established defense contractors by recasting U.S. military technology around nimble drones and software, instead of giant ships and expensive aircraft.“It’s about making much-lower-cost, easy-to-produce and mass-manufacture weapons that we can resupply in a time of war,” said <a href="https://c.im/tags/Brian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Brian</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Schimpf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Schimpf</a>, chief executive and co-founder of the eight-year-old company.  That approach is winning support inside the Pentagon as it grapples with a major challenge to U.S. power just inherited by Trump. It is starkly illustrated by a military operation that took place one night this past April, after Iran fired more than 300 missiles and self-destructing drones at Israel from Iran, Iraq, Yemen and Lebanon.“We are paying millions to shoot down something that costs thousands,” Adm. Samuel Paparo, commander of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, said last month at the Reagan National Defense Forum in Simi Valley, California. “We’re on the wrong end of that.”That asymmetry contributes to another headache for the Defense Department. War in the Middle East, Russia’s continuing assault on Ukraine, and China’s escalating rhetoric about controlling Taiwan have stretched U.S. weapons stocks and defense industry supply chains, as the Pentagon supplies allies like Israel in addition to U.S. forces.  If the United States went to war with China, it would run out of long-range precision missiles in less than a week, according to a 2023 report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a think tank.  Anduril is headquartered in the former Los Angeles Times printing press a 30-minute drive from the site of the drone demonstration. Out front sat an open-topped military humvee owned by <a href="https://c.im/tags/Palmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Palmer</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Luckey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Luckey</a>, the most high-profile of the company’s five co-founders. He previously sold virtual reality start-up Oculus VR to Facebook at the age of 21 for $2 billion and was for years one of the few prominent Trump supporters among tech elites -- until Elon Musk and others embraced the former president in 2024.Anduril, christened for a sword in “The Lord of the Rings” whose Elvish name means “Flame of the West,” cultivates a culture starkly different from established defense contractors based in Beltway office parks.  The designs of the company’s sensor towers and cruise missiles evoke military hardware seen in Japanese sci-fi anime shows. In November, the company launched a merch store featuring Hawaiian shirts modeled by Luckey and keepsakes from exploded prototypes.  The start-up, which has received more than $4 billion in funding, started out selling surveillance towers to U.S. Customs and Border Protection. It now has a lineup of eight aerial and aquatic surveillance and attack drones, with customers including the Pentagon and some U.S. allies. Its <a href="https://c.im/tags/Lattice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Lattice</a> software, used in the drone demonstration, provides a way to link up and control different robots, sensors and other military equipment, -- a kind of operating system for war. <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/01/21/anduril-startup-weapons-drones-ai/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/01/21/anduril-startup-weapons-drones-ai/</a>

Chuck DarwinAttendees, with white-and-red gift bags and lanyards, knew to be closelipped when approached by hotel interlopers or by the Times reporter, who was not invited to the closed-press festivities. But a copy of the agenda listed remarks by several tech billionaires, including the Anduril co-founder <a href="https://c.im/tags/Palmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Palmer</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Luckey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Luckey</a> and the venture capitalist <a href="https://c.im/tags/Marc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Marc</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Andreessen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Andreessen</a>, who spoke about his support for deregulating technology and the mixed reaction in Silicon Valley to his endorsement of Mr. Trump, according to attendees.There were tech up-and-comers, too: Donald Trump <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Jr</a>. announced at the welcome dinner that he was entering venture capital. And days before the president-elect chose Robert F. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kennedy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Kennedy</a> Jr. for health and human services secretary, Mr. Kennedy spoke extensively about his public-health work to a standing ovation. Ms. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Wiles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Wiles</a> also led a session on “2024 Election Analysis,” where she gave a preview of Mr. Trump’s first days as president.“It’s the domestic ‘Davos in the desert,’” said the Rockbridge backer <a href="https://c.im/tags/Omeed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Omeed</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Malik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Malik</a>, referring to the annual business conference in Riyadh, and Donald Trump Jr.’s new business partner.➡️Rockbridge began with more humility. Back in 2019, Mr. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Vance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Vance</a>, then best known as the author of “Hilbilly Elegy,” and a conservative media figure named <a href="https://c.im/tags/Chris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chris</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Buskirk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Buskirk</a> began informally hosting a series of small dinners that would eventually become called Rockbridge. The group drew early support from the venture capitalist <a href="https://c.im/tags/Peter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Peter</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thiel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Thiel</a> and eventually caught the attention of Donald J. Trump, who spoke at a few meetings.Once in the fall and once in the spring, Rockbridge began to gather at places like the Four Seasons in Palm Beach, Fla., or the Ritz-Carlton in Dallas for three days of political panels and business networking. Speakers included people like <a href="https://c.im/tags/Tucker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tucker</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Carlson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Carlson</a>; the Thiel protégé <a href="https://c.im/tags/Blake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Blake</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Masters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Masters</a>; the casino mogul <a href="https://c.im/tags/Steve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Steve</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Wynn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Wynn</a>; the investor <a href="https://c.im/tags/David" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#David</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Sacks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sacks</a>; and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Woody" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Woody</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Johnson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Johnson</a>, the billionaire owner of the New York Jets.Not all attendees have politics at the top of their mind. Some are primarily interested in business, seeing Rockbridge as a conservative-tinged version of the elite Sun Valley conference.<a href="https://c.im/tags/RockbridgeNetwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RockbridgeNetwork</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/RebekahMercer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RebekahMercer</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ElonMusk</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/KenHowery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#KenHowery</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/LukeNosek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LukeNosek</a>

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